1 Tiger Language Reference Manual

This document defines the Tiger language, derived from a language introduced by Andrew Appel in his “Modern Compiler Implementation” books (see Modern Compiler Implementation in The Tiger Compiler Project). We insist so that our students buy this book, so we refrained from publishing a complete description of the language. Unfortunately, recent editions of this series of book no longer address Tiger (see In Java - Second Edition in The Tiger Compiler Project), and therefore they no longer include a definition of the Tiger compiler. As a result, students were more inclined to xerox the books, rather than buying newer editions. To fight this trend, we decided to publish a complete definition of the language. Of course, the definition below is not a verbatim copy from the original language definition: these words are ours.